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Captured: The Japanese Internment of American Civilians in the Philippines, 1941-1945More than five thousand American civilian men, women, and children living in the Philippines during World War II were confined to internment camps following Japan's late December 1941 victories in Manila. Captured tells the story of daily life in five different camps--the crowded housing,...
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Politics of White Rights: Race, Justice, and Integrating Alabama's SchoolsIn The Politics of White Rights, Joseph Bagley recounts the history of school desegregation litigation in Alabama, focusing on the malleability and durability of white resistance. He argues that the litigious battles of 1954-73 taught Alabama's segregationists how to fashion a more subtle defense...
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George Washington's Washington: Visions for the National Capital in the Early American RepublicThis book traces the history of the development, abandonment, and eventual revival of George Washington's original vision for a grand national capital on the Potomac. In 1791 Washington's ideas found form in architect Peter Charles L'Enfant's plans for the city. Yet the unprecedented scope...
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Three Governors Controversy: Skullduggery, Machinations, and the Decline of Georgia's Progressive PoliticsThe death of Georgia governor-elect Eugene Talmadge in late 1946 launched a constitutional crisis that ranks as one of the most unusual political events in U.S. history: the state had three active governors at once, each claiming that he was the true elected official.This...
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We Want Land to Live: Making Political Space for Food SovereigntyWe Want Land to Live explores the current boundaries of radical approaches to food sovereignty. First coined by La Via Campesina (a global movement whose name means "the peasant's way"), food sovereignty is a concept that expresses the universal right to food. Amy Trauger...
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Saving the Soul of Georgia: Donald L. Hollowell and the Struggle for Civil RightsDonald L. Hollowell was Georgia's chief civil rights attorney during the 1950s and 1960s. In this role he defended African American men accused or convicted of capital crimes in a racially hostile legal system, represented movement activists arrested for their civil rights work, and...
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Territories of Poverty: Rethinking North and SouthTerritories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized. Staging theoretical interventions that traverse social histories of the American welfare state and critical ethnographies of international development regimes, these essays confront how poverty is constituted as a problem. In...
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Black Woman Reformer: Ida B. Wells, Lynching, and Transatlantic ActivismDuring the early 1890s, a series of shocking lynchings brought unprecedented international attention to American mob violence. This interest created an opportunity for Ida B. Wells, an African American journalist and civil rights activist from Memphis, to travel to England to cultivate British moral...
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Retrofitting Sprawl: Addressing Seventy Years of Failed Urban FormThese twelve previously unpublished essays present innovative and practical ideas for addressing the harmful effects of sprawl. Sprawl is not only an ongoing focus of specialized magazines like Dwell; indeed, Time magazine has cited "recycling the suburbs" as the second of "Ten Ideas Changing...
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The Nashville WayAmong Nashville's many slogans, the one that best reflects its emphasis on manners and decorum is the Nashville Way, a phrase coined by boosters to tout what they viewed as the city's amicable race relations. Benjamin Houston offers the first scholarly book on the...
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They Saved the Crops: Labor, Landscape, and the Struggle Over Industrial Farming in Bracero-Era CaliforniaAt the outset of World War II, California agriculture seemed to be on the cusp of change. Many Californians, reacting to the ravages of the Great Depression, called for a radical reorientation of the highly exploitative labor relations that had allowed the state to...
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Integrating the 40 Acres: The Fifty-Year Struggle for Racial Equality at the University of TexasYou name it, we can't do it. That was how one African American student at the University of Texas at Austin summed up his experiences in a 1960 newspaper article--some ten years after the beginning of court-mandated desegregation at the school. In this first...
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In Search of Brightest Africa: Reimagining the Dark Continent in American Culture, 1884-1936In the decades between the Berlin Conference that partitioned Africa and the opening of the African Hall at the American Museum of Natural History, Americans in several fields and from many backgrounds argued that Africa had something to teach them. Jeannette Eileen Jones traces...
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Deluxe Jim Crow: Civil Rights and American Health Policy, 1935-1954Plagued by geographic isolation, poverty, and acute shortages of health professionals and hospital beds, the South was dubbed by Surgeon General Thomas Parran "the nation's number one health problem." The improvement of southern, rural, and black health would become a top priority of the...
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The Constitution, Law, and American Life: Critical Aspects of the Nineteenth-Century ExperienceThe eight essays in this volume imaginatively explore the interrelationship between law and society in nineteenth-century America and encompass in their discussion some of the major historical issues of the era.Author: Donald G. NiemanPublisher: University of Georgia PressPublished: 01/01/2011Pages: 216Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 9.00h...
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Democracy Delayed: Congressional Reapportionment and Urban-Rural Conflict in the 1920sHistorians have customarily explained the 1920s in terms of urban-rural conflict, arguing that cultural, ethnic, and economic differences between urban and rural Americans erupted to intensify and influence political conflict in the decade. In Democracy Delayed, Charles W. Eagles uses the issue of congressional...
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Tremé: Race and Place in a New Orleans NeighborhoodAcross Rampart Street from the French Quarter, the Faubourg Trem neighborhood is arguably the most important location for African American culture in New Orleans. Closely associated with traditional jazz and "second line" parading, Trem is now the setting for an eponymous television series created...
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The Wilderness Debate Rages on: Continuing the Great New Wilderness DebateTen years ago, The Great New Wilderness Debate began a cross-disciplinary conversation about the varied constructions of "wilderness" and the controversies that surround them. The Wilderness Debate Rages On will reinvigorate that conversation and usher in a second decade of debate. Like its predecessor,...
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The Spirit of Roman LawThis book is not about the rules or concepts of Roman law, says Alan Watson, but about the values and approaches, explicit and implicit, of those who made the law. The scope of Watson's concerns encompasses the period from the Twelve Tables, around 451...
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Argentina and the United States: An Alliance ContainedIn the first English-language survey of Argentine-U.S. relations to appear in more than a decade, David M. K. Sheinin challenges the accepted view that confrontation has been the characteristic state of affairs between the two countries. Sheinin draws on both Spanish- and English-language sources...
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